Do fuel reduction treatments cause beetle mortality or resilience? Research Brief
/During normal levels of beetle activity, fuel treatment reductions either cause no trees to die from beetles or just a few. If tree deaths occur, they reinforce fuel hazard reduction and forest restoration goals.
Stark, DT, DL Wood, AJ Storer, and SL Stephens. 2013. Prescribed fire and mechanical thinning effects on bark beetle caused tree mortality in a mid-elevation Sierran mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 306:61-67.
doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.018
